D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NASDAQ: QBTS) will appear as a platinum sponsor at Quantum World Congress 2026, running September 23-25 in College Park, Maryland.
The company positions itself as the only quantum computing firm offering both annealing and gate-model systems, software, and services under a single commercial umbrella.
D-Wave plans to demonstrate that the quantum era is multi-platform, with different technologies designed to address fundamentally different types of computational problems.
Presentations will include production results from annealing quantum computing applications currently solving complex commercial and public-sector optimization challenges.
The company will also provide updates on its dual-rail gate-model architecture, built to reduce the cost and complexity of quantum error correction.
That architecture targets applications well suited to gate-model quantum computing, including quantum chemistry and materials simulation, which require fault-tolerant hardware approaches.
Dr. Robert Schoelkopf, D-Wave chief science officer, will deliver a plenary address titled “From Innovation to Utility: The Quantum Era Takes Shape with Two Platforms” on Friday, September 25, at 11:35 a.m. ET.
Allison Schwartz, D-Wave senior vice president of global government relations and public affairs, will join a panel titled “Quantum You Can See: Real Use Cases, Real Impact” on Thursday, September 24, at 4:30 p.m. ET.
Schwartz will also participate in a second panel, “Quantum Policy from the Inside: How Industry Is Shaping the Federal Agenda,” on Friday, September 25, at 2 p.m. ET, focusing on policies needed to strengthen U.S. quantum leadership.
“In our view, quantum computing is not a single-architecture race, and it will not be won by qubit counts alone,” said Schoelkopf.
He added that D-Wave is “bringing two kinds of evidence to Quantum World Congress: production results from annealing systems solving complex optimization problems now, and gate-model results showing how hardware-level erasure detection can reduce the burden of quantum error correction.”
Schoelkopf stated that “organizations should not have to choose between useful quantum computing today and a credible path to fault tolerance,” describing the two-platform strategy as designed to deliver both simultaneously.
Congress attendees can visit D-Wave at booths 51 and 53, where company experts will offer live demonstrations of quantum-powered applications alongside physical views of annealing and gate-model quantum processing units.
D-Wave reports that more than 100 organizations across commercial, government, and research sectors currently rely on its systems for complex computational challenges, with cloud access available through its Leap quantum cloud service.
